I’m currently following a tutorial for creating a simple game and I stumbled upon an issue (possibly a bug?) that I have no idea how to resolve.
I’m using a custom font for my UI and the font itself is not the problem, because I tried the same thing with other fonts too and I keep getting the same issue with most of them.
When I import the font into the Content Browser, it’s immediately visible.
When I open the font though, it has no issues, it looks fine!
The real problem is that the issue comes in-game too:
When I’m using the default Roboto font it’s displaying the correct score with a “space” symbol. When I’m using this font and some others, it gives me this “missing symbol” thing and I can’t understand why. Not only that but the guy from the tutorial (Greg Wondra) gets a comma (,) symbol after the first 3 symbols in the scoreboard and I have no idea how he did that since I’m following step by step and I’m using the same font.
I tried everything I could think of and nothing worked so far, so if anyone has any ideas - please tell me!
Oh, wait, it’s not in the Event Graph, but in one of the Functions and was automatically created, that’s why I couldn’t remember this node. So I DO have it. What now?
OK, I think I found out what symbol is it trying to put there and since it doesn’t exist in the font - it puts this “missing symbol” thing. It’s the underscore “_”, but I have no idea why it puts that particular sign
i had this exact problem trying to show score, heres what fixed it for me.
open your font and add a fallback font to it. click “show engine content” if its not on.
Probably you are using a non-commercial version of the font, it’s a common practice between font artists to put strange symbols in common characters (space, numbers, apostrophe, et cetera) to discourage the usage of the free version (that should be a trial to show how the font looks like in your project)
You can edit these symbols with programs like Fontlab but you’re not allowed to use an edited font commercially.
